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redclaw
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I have 2 female redclaws and 2 males are a light blue.
The females are greyish brown colour. And the babies are they same. How can I get them to have blue babies? By breeding a baby with the father again? is that possible? |
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Ulli Bauer
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Hi,
yes, this is frequently done in crusta breeding.
Beautiful crays!
Cheers and good luck
Ulli |
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redclaw
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| Ok so... if the daughter of one light blue father, is bred with the other light blue father? Would the babies be light blue too ? |
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Ulli Bauer
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I've found nothing definitive, but as the light blue color is probably a mutation it's more likely than not that it's passed on recessively.
In that case, the filial generation F1 is heterozygous (they have one recessive light blue gene and one dominant wild color gene). If one of these mates with a (doubly recessive) light blue male, 50% of the offspring will be light blue and 50% wild-colored (but heterozygous, i.e. they will be able to have light blue offspring, too.) This is only a prediction, total numbers may vary, of course.
Ah, Mendel...
Cheers
Ulli |
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Ulli Bauer
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I've just seen that this in in the Shrimp section - I'm moving it to Crayfish.
Cheers
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